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The Project Manager at BluNova will be responsible for managing multiple projects within a portfolio and, in some instances, multiple portfolios. They’re responsible for the outcome and successful delivery of multiple projects with a key focus on the broader view. The Project Manager needs to mitigate any project risk as it arises. The Project Manager will work with multiple Business Owners spanning multiple disciplines. The Project Manager will deal with strategic tasks; aligning the to the business strategy and the strategic goals of the organization

 

 

 

 

Job Title: Project Manager
Location: Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa
Reference #: B353
Contract Type: Permanent
Salary: Market Related

Job Summary:
Project Management:
Facilitate the delivery of the BluNova Strategy both in BluNova and relevant business partners.
Oversee the achievement and risk “blockers” related to product deliveries
Partner with management to develop and review lean business cases
Ensure project governance processes and decisions are applied consistently
Provide input to budgeting process per project portfolio
Ensure full adoption of JIRA, Confluence and other designated tools
Work closely with Infrastructure, Systems Architecture, Product Owners,
Development Teams, IT Operations Manager and other stakeholders to facilitate delivery and remove impediments
Assume the Scrum Master role for selected projects to deliver as per requirement
Enable, support and accelerate the transition from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum, Kanban) or any software development methodology elected by the BluNova team.
Drive high quality of all project deliverables
Managing customer expectations for project deliverables
Managing stakeholder communications
Implement an effective system of project governance
Supporting and educating the Business Delivery and IT Operations Manager, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog.

Process Management:
Define and manage a well-defined project management process and champion ongoing process improvement initiatives to implement best practices for Project Management
Coaching the team on software development methods and technical and operational practices
Facilitating key agile ceremonies
Managing software development methods such as Scrum, SAFe, Kanban, XP, LSD and FDD
Build competency within the Decisioning and Capabilities teams by developing project metrics
Provide leadership with meaningful performance metrics and status reports based on JIRA dashboards
Identify risks proactively, drive timely mitigation, and escalate to management appropriately

Project Planning:
Define project scopes with Business Stakeholders
Lead project status and working meetings
Manage risks and issues
Correct deviations from plans
Provide input into delivery planning for assigned projects

Leadership:
Assessing the Scrum maturity of the BluNova team
Coaching the BluNova team to higher levels of maturity, at a pace that is sustainable and comfortable for the team and organisation.
Role model behavior and motivate team members in line with the core values

Work collaborations:
Build a culture of respect and understanding within BluNova and the organisation
Recognise outcomes which resulted from effective collaboration between teams
Build co-operation and overcome barriers to information sharing, communication and collaboration across the organisation
Facilitate opportunities to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders to develop joint solutions
Provide the required information to the relevant teams to ensure effective delivery of initiatives
Strive to ensure deadlines are met and deviations are managed as prescribed by the ways of work

Data Gathering and, Curation:
Understand the breadth of BluNova’s data sets and engage in interactive data exploration and data-driven storytelling to communicate or apply this in business
Source and motivate for new data and/or features (both within and external to partner companies) that may be required to deliver DaaS or modelling requirements.
Assess the effectiveness and accuracy of new data sources and ensure that they are appropriate for the BluNova environment.
Ensure that informative datasets are appropriately served for analytics and BI applications inside and outside of BluNova as required
Describe and motivate for changes in data requirements for the data engineer and/or data scientist to include in the pipeline.
Influence the architecture of data structures and feature sets so that they (1) facilitate diverse and detailed analyses (2) enable large scale processing, (3) manage data sensitivity and (4) promote future applications of the DaaS environment.

Requirements:
BEHAVIORAL COMPETENCIES:

Plan and align
Communicate effectively
Ensure accountability
Collaborates
Financial acumen
Manages complexity
Resourcefulness

EDUCATION:
Matric
Post graduate qualification in Project Management (PMP) or related discipline
Post graduate qualification in Information Technology or related discipline advantageous

EXPERIENCE:

Minimum of 5+ years of combined project management, scrum master and development work experience required, with at least 3 years using Agile methodologies

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Application Deadline: 10/05/2022